AI-Native Builder, Senior (Security Specialist)
Progress Software Corporation2 months ago
Brno, CzechiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Security Champion for an integrated product line and own security issues end-to-end.
- Investigate, reproduce, prioritize, and validate vulnerabilities from customers, tooling, penetration tests, and researchers.
- Analyze complex codebases, identify root causes, and implement security fixes where appropriate.
- Coordinate remediation changes across multiple components or engineering teams.
- Partner with architects to improve secure design patterns, standards, and architectural guardrails.
- Build internal tools, automation, and AI-assisted workflows for triage, remediation, testing, and validation.
- Coach teams on secure development practices and embed AI-led security into engineering workflows.
- Lead risk-based remediation planning using exploitability analysis.
- Support customer security reviews, vulnerability disclosure, and coordinated remediation activities.
- Communicate complex security findings to engineers, product managers, leaders, customers, and researchers.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience with Go, Python, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
- Ability to understand, analyze, and debug complex production code and systems.
- Experience investigating, prioritizing, and validating application security vulnerabilities.
- Knowledge of secure software development, secure application architecture, and threat modeling.
- Understanding of OWASP, CWE, CVSS, exploitability analysis, and risk-based remediation.
- Experience using AI to accelerate investigations and secure software development.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and the ability to influence technical decisions and build consensus.
- Preferred experience serving as a Security Champion or technical security lead.
- Preferred hands-on experience with SAST, DAST, SCA, dependency analysis, or container security tooling.
- Preferred experience coordinating penetration tests or vulnerability disclosure programs.
- Preferred familiarity with OWASP SAMM or similar secure software development maturity models.
- Preferred experience building internal engineering tools or AI-assisted engineering workflows and supporting customer security reviews.
Benefits
- Generous remuneration package and Employee Stock Purchase Plan enrollment.
- Five weeks of vacation, birthday leave, service-anniversary leave, and community service time off.
- International Women's Day is an official holiday for all employees.
- Risk life insurance, flexible working hours, and work-from-home options.
- Meal allowance and Flowmon Benefit Program options for leisure, wellness, pension insurance, or a co-funded Multisport card.
- Relaxation zone, workplace drinks and fruit, and company-wide events.
- Hybrid work arrangement indicated by #LI-Hybrid.
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About Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software builds commercial software for developers and IT teams, including UI components (Telerik/Kendo UI), app platform (OpenEdge), CMS (Sitefinity), data connectivity (DataDirect), DevOps automation (Chef), secure file transfer (MOVEit), network monitoring (WhatsUp Gold), and load balancing (Kemp LoadMaster). It sells licenses and subscriptions with support to enterprises and software vendors. Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, Progress is a public company on NASDAQ under the ticker PRGS.